New Era University

College of Engineering and Architecture

Civil Engineering Department

FUNDAMENTALS OF SURVEYING
CE 211 – 18

FIELDWORK NO. 8
REACTION PAPER ON HOW TO LAYOUT A BUILDING

RATING

NAME: Joson, Joshua C. DATE PERFORMED: June 29, 2021

GROUP NO. SCHEDULE: Tues (9:00-14:00) DATE SUBMITTED: June 30, 2021

ENGR. RAFFY DELOS REYES

Instructor
 Today’s lesson through this semester we are instructed to watch a short video
about how to layout a site for a building to be constructed. Laying out is a process in which
it will provide a close to perfect or precise and accurate measurements to be a guide and
serve as a mark for the corresponding series of building construction such as boring.

In the video, before the surveyor was able to layout out his measurements, it is
predetermined as to where the location or the specified site to be worked on. Certain
instruments and tools are also prepared such as the grading scale, the 180L, couple of
Jett Rods, wooden boards, and most notably the surveyor’s measuring tape. The
surveyor begins laying out and it is observable how careful and show different techniques
in order to achieve the accurate and perfect measurements needed and the fact that
“perfect measurements” does not only rely upon physical measurements but mainly on
math as to what the surveyor emphasized.

The 1/16” in 40ft is about 8000 (7680, to be precise) in linear dimension and about 1
minute of arc in angle. If those tolerances were applied in proportion to the scale to be
worked on it’d be very much wise to be careful if it were to be hit. No wonder they have
to check and re-check their layout. That’s not only precision work, it is high precision work
even though the surveyors are running string over dirt.